Japan reports sixth infant death after vaccination

Mar 10, 2011

Japan's health ministry on Thursday reported the death of a sixth infant who recently received vaccinations made by Pfizer or Sanofi-Aventis that have been suspended since last week.

The ministry said the unidentified boy, aged between six months and one year, died seven days after receiving Sanofi Pasteur's ActHIB in combination with a DPT shot for diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus on February 15.

The latest case followed the ministry's earlier reports that five infants under three years old had died since early February after receiving the vaccinations alone or in combination with other drugs.

At least three of the six infants suffered from known pre-existing heart conditions and other illnesses.

The ministry has suspended Prevenar, made by New York-based Pfizer, and ActHIB, made by the Sanofi Pasteur wing of Paris-headquartered Sanofi-Aventis, while it investigates whether they are linked to the children's deaths.

A group of medical experts have said they were not able to identify a specific link between the deaths and the vaccines and the ministry is conducting detailed investigations.

Both shots have been given widely to children around the world for years to prevent bacterial infections causing pneumonia and meningitis, which can be fatal in rare instances.

French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi-Aventis said on Wednesday that US competition authorities had not raised any objections to its hostile bid for US biotechnology group and rare disease specialist Genzyme.

Infants with whooping cough were most likely infected by the people they live with, according to a multi-country study led by researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health.

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The sad part of this ban is that many children in Japan are missing their vaccination windows and will either have to restart treatment schedules or go unvaccinated. Many parents are choosing to skip treatment altogether because of overstated dangers.

My wife and I are expecting a child soon, and this is a pretty important issue for us. Japan is actually pretty far behind the rest of the industialized world when it comes to vaccines, and has higher death disease-related infant death rates because of it. I'm planning on getting our child treated in the US, where the schedule is more robust and there are government subsidies (or so I've read).

Lie or ignorance. The immune system is moderately well understood and the theory has worked in actual practice.

Vaccines destroy the immune system, they have helped no one.

Total fabrication, POSSIBLY based on an amazing level of ignorance.

If what you said was true then we would still have smallpox killing millions every decade. Polio would still be killing or crippling millions. Smallpox is extinct and polio nearly so and it is entirely due to vaccinations.

Johannes, there is no such historical event as "the gassing 6 million Jews". That is a religious tenet.

That lie. Either you are a real lying creep or astoundingly ignorant. Of course it is a partly true statement. The Nazis machine gunned tens of thousands of people, Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, Poles when the Poles ran out of Jews to hand over to the Nazis until they got tired of using up bullets. Starvation was used a lot. 80,000 were killed in on slave labor alone. That was at Peenamunde where the Nazis killed more Jews building the V2 rockets then the rockets killed in England. But they definitely got around to using gas.

This coward is making hit an run posts. Tells lies and then runs away.

Ethelred

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